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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Together
Diamonds
Diamond
Field
Moved
Green
Blue
Fields

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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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